Our associated organisations

The Free Software Foundation Europe is empowering people to control
technology. That is a goal which no single organisation can achieve alone.
There are many groups who work successfully on this goal. Some help
individuals and organisations to understand how Free Software contributes
to freedom, transparency, and self-determination. Others enhance users'
rights by abolishing barriers to Free Software adoption. Or they focus on
encouraging people to use and develop Free Software.

No matter what focus or legal status your group has; we believe it is
important to join forces and work together to reach our common goals. With
our associated organisations we want to show that we are a strong movement.
We exchange ideas, coordinate efforts, motivate each other, and find
opportunities to work together on specific projects.

ANSOL is the "National Association for Free Software". It is a Portuguese non-profit association dedicated to the promotion, development, research and study of Computing Freedom and its social, political philosophical, cultural, technical and scientific implications.

The "Free Software Friends Greek Association" (also called "Greek Linux User Group" and since June 2010 was given also the name "GNU Greece" by Richard M. Stallman) is a greek NGO/Society, whose purpose is to promote GNU/Linux and Free Software in Greece through various activities as seminars, introduction speeches at schools, daily operation of GNU/Linux Labs around Greece and struggle for Free Software in the Greek public sector.

Barcelona Free Software is an organization which aims to unite the
local Free Software community and spread Free Software values in
Barcelona. They started in 2014 and since have met several times to
discuss and celebrate different aspects of Free Culture ranging from
Wikipedia and OSM to Clang. Their goal is to: Make sure the community
is aware of local developments and teams; make sure there is someone
to back Free Software locally by either becoming the contact or
reaching to the right interlocutor if it is out of our scope; spread
Free Software in Barcelona.

Fundația Ceata is a Romanian Free Software and Free Culture foundation aligned with the Free Software philosophy of the GNU Project. It is incorporated in Bucharest and has local teams in Cluj County and the Republic of Moldova. Ceata (Romanian for "the gang") has started as an informal group in June 2008 and it has become foundation in February 2013. Since its beginning Ceata is heavily involved in Free Software activism, organization of digital freedom events, and development of Free Software and Free Cultural works.

The FFII is a not-for-profit association registered in twenty European countries, dedicated to the development of information goods for the public benefit, based on copyright, free competition, open standards. More than 850 members, 3,500 companies and 100,000 supporters have entrusted the FFII to act as their voice in public policy questions concerning exclusion rights (intellectual property) in data processing.

The Society for Free Culture and Software is a Swedish non-profit
organisation working for a society built around a free exchange of
knowledge, ideas and culture. The society works inter-disciplinary and
gathers in the conference FSCONS knowledge from several different
groups, including Creative Commons, Free Software Foundation Europe,
Wikimedia, FriBit and EFN.

GFOSS – Open Technologies Alliance is a non-profit organization founded
in 2008, 35 Universities and Research Centers are shareholders of GFOSS.
GFOSS' main goal is to promote Openness through the use and the
development of Open Standards and Open Technologies in Education, Public
Administration and Business in Greece.

The goals of Irish Free Software Organisation (IFSO) are to
prevent changes in legislation which would harm Free Software
users and developers, and to promote awareness of Free Software
among Irish computer users.

The Document Foundation is a charitable foundation that works to
eliminate the digital divide in society by giving everyone access to
free (as in freedom) office productivity tools free of charge, thus
enabling them to participate as full citizens in the 21st century. We
support the preservation of mother tongues by encouraging everybody
to translate, document, support, and promote our office productivity
tools into their mother tongue; and enable users to retain rights in
the documents they create, by supporting open document formats and
open standards.

Vrijschrift creates awareness about the economic and social
meaning of free knowledge and culture for our
society. Vrijschrift fulfills both a protecting and promoting
role. Internationally we work together with the Foundation for
a Free Information Infrastructure, the Free Software
Foundation Europe, Project Gutenberg and a lot of other
organisations.